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Natural apothecary skincare

Skincare you can read.

Cold-pressed oils, gentle milk cleansers and barrier creams - made with five ingredients or fewer, each one named and sourced. No mystery fragrance, no filler, nothing to hide.

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5 ingredients or fewer Dermatologist-tested Recyclable refills

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  • 5 ingredients or fewerEvery one named on the box
  • Carbon-neutral shippingFree over $40
  • Recyclable refillsReturn three empties
  • Dermatologist-testedKind to reactive skin

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A soft cream cleanser in a minimal white tube Cleanse Milks & balms Rosehip facial oil in an amber dropper bottle on a wooden dish Treat Oils, serums & masks Aloe day cream in a frosted glass jar Moisturize Creams & balms Green clay mask blended in a small ceramic dish Bestsellers Most reordered

Traceable botanicals

Five ingredients or fewer - and we name every one

No mystery "parfum", no fillers to bulk out a bottle. Here are three of the botanicals we lean on most, and exactly where they're grown.

01 Ripe red rosehips on the branch

RosehipRosa canina

Cold-pressed for provitamin A and omega 3, 6 and 9 - the quiet worker behind softer fine lines and a more even tone.

Wild-harvested · Bío-Bío, Chile

02 Bowls of oats on a rustic wooden table

Colloidal OatAvena sativa

Milled fine and suspended in our cleansers and creams to calm tightness, stinging and redness on reactive skin.

Organic · Perthshire, Scotland

03 A fresh green aloe vera plant with dew on its leaves

Aloe VeraAloe barbadensis

Pressed and used as the base of our day cream and serum instead of plain water, so the first ingredient already does something.

Organic · Andalusia, Spain

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Aloe Day Cream in a frosted glass jar Bestseller

Day Cream

Aloe Day Cream

4.8 (163)

$30

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Radical transparency

Turn the box over. Read every word.

We print the full ingredient list, what each one does, and where it's grown - on the box and on every product page. If we can't explain why an ingredient is there, it doesn't go in.

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The Fernwell way

Fewer, better, honest ingredients

We started Fernwell because a shelf of thirty-ingredient serums made our own skin worse, not better. So we strip each formula back to what actually works, name every ingredient, and tell you where it came from.

  • Five ingredients or fewer in most formulas
  • No synthetic fragrance, dyes or fillers
  • Vegan, cruelty-free and dermatologist-tested
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From our community

Skin that finally settled down

★★★★★

"The rosehip oil is the first thing that's calmed my combination skin without breaking me out. Three ingredients, and I can pronounce all of them."
Marguerite L.Verified buyer

★★★★★

"My skin flushes at everything, so a fragrance-free milk cleanser that actually removes SPF is a small miracle. The oat one is a permanent repurchase."
Priya N.Verified buyer

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"I sent back three empties and got a refill pouch in the post - half the price and barely any packaging. More brands should work like this."
Daniel O.Verified buyer